053 Contempt

"Hmph, the rumors are really true, this stunned young man from a serf, in addition to being more powerful, is an arrogant military idiot who will only rely on his brute strength, and even this kind of army dares to put it in front of us."

The commander-in-chief of the Rostov avant-garde turned his head and ordered: "The whole army is pressed up and attacked, and let our warriors tell this group of peasants with weapons what war is." ”

The sound of a muffled horn sounded, and the armored and helmeted Rostov infantry musketeers in front and hand-to-hand combatants in the rear, marched forward in a simple horizontal column under the shouts of the squad leader, while the cavalry units raised their horses' hooves and slowly detoured forward from both sides, waiting for the fighters.

Even though there was a huge difference in strength between the enemy and us, the avant-garde army in Rostov still maintained a basic combat quality, which shows the elite degree of this unit.

When advancing on the opposite side, the cannon fodder of the first camp was also driven by the militia recruited in the rear, and began to step forward with the blade in hand, and as the two military formations approached, the hunter archers on Shu Zifeng's side and the arquebusiers on the opposite side took the lead in sounding the rhythm of engaging the enemy.

All of a sudden, the muskets in front of the battlefield rang out one after another, and the white smoke even covered the figure of the musketeers, greatly affecting the aiming of the arquebusiers.

However, after they fired two volleys, they didn't need to continue aiming, because the cannon fodder of the first camp had already left dozens of corpses and retreated in a hurry......

"All of them, charge!"

Under the orders of the mid-ranking officers of the Rostov Avant-garde, the musketeers put their arquebuses back, drew their waist knives or picked up Polish tomahawks and strode forward with shouts from other hand-to-hand combatants!

"Ulla! Woo-la-la-la-......"

Conrad rode his war horse and galloped towards the place where the handsome flag was, only to see that Shu Zifeng was ready to run away, and was directing the guards to pack up the handsome flag and run with him......

"Oh, Conrad is here too, the time is just right, let's run together, we don't need to run very fast, it's enough to be faster than those two-legged cannon fodder."

Conrad was a little uncomfortable with the 'easy-going' atmosphere in front of him, and pointed to the battlefield not far away and said, "My lord, our hand-to-hand soldiers have not yet come into contact with the enemy......

"There's no need for that, anyway, if we run into it, it's about to collapse, we have an important mission next, use this handsome flag to show our decoy cannon fodder the direction of escape, which is very important!"

Shu Zifeng said seriously.

The situation on the battlefield was just as Shu Zifeng said, it was the cannon fodder of the first camp who was forced to play, and in the layers of Ula on the opposite side, a three-digit number of personnel was cut down in one face, and then there was an avalanche without accident......

As for the array of conscription militia, it was not much better, and when the main force of the Rostov avant-garde infantry rushed over with the rout of the first battalion, it also became the target of slaughter without any suspense.

The commander of the Rostov avant-garde army had long expected this outcome, but his purpose was obviously not to defeat the opponent with a single click, the enemy collapsed too quickly and there were also disadvantages, most of the enemy soldiers began to run away without a fight, and they had sufficient physical strength to compete with the attacking soldiers for the endurance of the marathon, so it can be said that the probability of escape is very large!

On the contrary, it is difficult for those elite infantry who have collapsed after a long battle to escape, because cutting people is a very physically demanding job, and after a long battle, they naturally have no strength to run......

Therefore, the rout was very quick to recruit the militia and the first battalion cannon fodder, and quickly kept up with the Shu Zifeng handsome banner with very accurate escape timing, and the soldiers had the instinct to follow the boss after the collapse, and the chaotic battlefield, the rout with a blank brain, naturally felt that the boss was safer, because the boss had the most elite guards, and the combat effectiveness was the best!

This is the instinct of the weak to pursue the strong, and in the training on weekdays, the soldiers will also be instilled with the concept of following the commander's flag again and again, forming a conditioned reflex behavior.

"Let the cavalry attack at full speed, today I will use the head of that lowly serf as a urinal!" The commander of the Rostov avant-garde army commanded in high spirits.

Subsequently, under the transmission of orders at various levels, the entire Rostov avant-garde army pursued forward, and nearly a thousand cavalry units raised their horses' hooves and followed the physically strong fleeing army to slash and kill all the way, as if playing a hunting game.

In fact, many aristocratic cavalry really regarded this war as a hunting game, and in this era of lack of entertainment, riding a high-speed war horse, wielding a saber to slash a frightened person from behind, looking at the raised head, and the neck like a fountain and the legs of the headless corpse galloping forward according to inertia, it is also a rare exciting scene for the noble cavalry.

Blood, slaughter, courage, and glory are the lifelong pursuits of the aristocracy and knightly class, who are not good at business and like the feeling of arbitrarily deciding the fate of others by force.

The European aristocracy was an oppressive and exploiting class established by military merit and force, and they did not rely on examinations and literary merit to ascend to the top, but forged their privileges with swords and blood, which is why the European aristocracy was keen on war and martial arts.

The aristocracy of the European Middle Ages is somewhat similar to the newly started Manchu Eight Banners, using land to link military merits to establish a strong subjective initiative in combat, the difference is that after the Manchu Eight Banners unified the East Asian continent, there were no equal opponents around, and they were gradually corrupted and degraded by the gentle township, but the European aristocracy always had to face their neighbors, as well as follow the king and the direct nobles to fight abroad.

Therefore, after the end of the Middle Ages, the European aristocracy could still ensure strong combat effectiveness, and even in the era of the collapse of the feudal monarchy, it could have deep-rooted power in the military, but the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were completely wiped out in the noise of the revolution and reduced to ordinary people at the bottom.

When you abandon the sword, the power will leave you!

Nearly 1,000 aristocratic cavalry rushed into the official road between the mountains with the banner of Shu Zifeng unscrupulously as if slaughtering cattle and sheep, followed by the infantry of the Rostov avant-garde army that was advancing chaotically in a large group, cleaning up the fish left by the cavalry friendly forces.

The entire Rostov avant-garde army maintained a high mood of excitement and strode forward to expand the results of the battle, which is a common phenomenon of normal engagement, and if the victorious side does not pursue the remnants of the enemy, is it possible that the defeated side will have to wait for the defeated side to recover and replenish the troops to fight again?

Due to the contempt of Shu Zifeng by the commander of the Rostov avant-garde army, the whole army rushed into the official road between the mountains with such an unsuspecting whole army.

The commander of the Rostov avant-garde army was not unaware of the dangers of the terrain, but he did not think that a group of peasants with weapons could pose a threat to an army of professional soldiers, just as one would not think that a group of rabbits could ambush a lion!